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Aug 9th, 2009

Writing to MS Word.. Help?

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Why don't either of these implementations actually write to the file?

Code v1:

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txtfile = open('C:/Python31/SKUs.txt', 'w')
 
with txtfile:
    num = 817
    while num <= 820:
        x = "G" + str(num)
        print(str(x), end="    ")
        num += 1
 
txtfile.close()
txtfile = open('C:/Python31/SKUs.txt', 'w')

with txtfile:
    num = 817
    while num <= 820:
        x = "G" + str(num)
        print(str(x), end="    ")
        num += 1

txtfile.close()

Code v2:

Python Syntax (Toggle Plain Text)
txtfile = open('C:/Python31/SKUs.txt', 'w')
 
num = 817
while num <= 820:
    x = "G" + str(num)
    print(str(x), end="    ", file = txtfile)
    num += 1
 
print("test", file = txtfile)
 
txtfile.close()
txtfile = open('C:/Python31/SKUs.txt', 'w')

num = 817
while num <= 820:
    x = "G" + str(num)
    print(str(x), end="    ", file = txtfile)
    num += 1

print("test", file = txtfile)

txtfile.close()

Also, I could use some further help.

Here's what I want each page to look like (note the big font size of the SKUs relative to the page size, and the spacing):

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-----------------------------
| G817      G818       G819 |
|                           |   <-- page 1
|                           |
|                           |
|___________________________|

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-----------------------------
| G817      G818       G819 |
|                           |   <-- page 2
|                           |     (and so on, until G10000)
|                           |
|___________________________|
 
-----------------------------
| G817      G818       G819 |
|                           |   <-- page 2
|                           |     (and so on, until G10000)
|                           |
|___________________________|

I don't know how to make the font-size huge, or to achieve this spacing through Python code. Nor do I know how to create page breaks. If someone could help me with this that'd be great!

I'm also interested in knowing how to change fonts, and text colors (although it's not necessary for this project).

Additionally, if anyone knows of a good tutorial on writing to files, that'd be greatly appreciated!

Last edited by SuperMetroid; Aug 9th, 2009 at 3:55 pm.

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Re: Writing to MS Word.. Help?

You'll need to actually write to your file handle txtfile by using txtfile.write( text ) .

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Okay, I changed it to the following, but when I run it and open the file, the document is still blank.

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txtfile = open('C:/Python31/SKUs.txt', 'w')
 
with txtfile:
    num = 817
    while num <= 820:
        x = "G" + str(num)
        txtfile.write(x)
        num += 1
 
txtfile.close()
txtfile = open('C:/Python31/SKUs.txt', 'w')

with txtfile:
    num = 817
    while num <= 820:
        x = "G" + str(num)
        txtfile.write(x)
        num += 1

txtfile.close()

Last edited by SuperMetroid; Aug 9th, 2009 at 4:04 pm.

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Click to Expand / Collapse Quote originally posted by SuperMetroid ...

Okay, I changed it to the following, but when I run it and open the file, the document is still blank.
Python Syntax (Toggle Plain Text)
txtfile = open('C:/Python31/SKUs.txt', 'w')
 
with txtfile:
    num = 817
    while num <= 820:
        x = "G" + str(num)
        txtfile.write(x)
        num += 1
 
txtfile.close()
txtfile = open('C:/Python31/SKUs.txt', 'w') with txtfile: num = 817 while num <= 820: x = "G" + str(num) txtfile.write(x) num += 1 txtfile.close()

That code works fine for me. What platform are you on?

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That's rather unnerving. I'm using vanilla Python 3.1 on Windows XP.

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Re: Writing to MS Word.. Help?

This shouldn't make a difference but the proper way to use the with statement is like so:

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with open('C:/Python31/SKUs.txt', 'w') as txtfile:
    num = 817
    while num <= 820:
        x = "G" + str(num)
        txtfile.write(x)
        num += 1
with open('C:/Python31/SKUs.txt', 'w') as txtfile:
    num = 817
    while num <= 820:
        x = "G" + str(num)
        txtfile.write(x)
        num += 1

Notice I omit closing the file. That's because the with syntax automatically closes the file handle. AFter that loop you can test with txtfile.closed , which should return True because it's closed.

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Nice! Okay thanks that's helpful.
Hmm.. I tried running the code on my mac (Python 3.1) and it yields no results either.

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